IMHO, this makes no sense. You HAVE to be related, genetically to your GGGGrandfather. And there is mitrochondrial DNA, which transfers, intact, via the female line, which you could trace back to the goo we crawled out of (if they'd kept records back then). There are DNA Genealogy mailing lists. I am not subbed to one anymore, but perhaps you should sub to one and ask this question. I have no doubt that one of the experts on those lists can explain exactly how this works to you and who will know what your relative was trying to say. And if you figure out what he meant, let me know. ;-) :-) acp --------- glswings wrote: >Did you ask him to explain his theory to you? >----- Original Message ----- >From: <Scalawag1867@aol.com> >To: <ARKANSAS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:03 AM >Subject: [ARKANSAS] Related to our ancestors????????????? > > > > >>I help please. >> >>I talked at length this morning with my nephew who is with the FBI. >> >>He tells me that after three generations we are no longer related to our >>ancestors. >> >>we are linked by names but not by blood. >> >>He says no one is related to one another after third cousins. >> >>My line/ancestors: >> >>James Waldrop, Sr. >>Benjamin Waldrop >>Green Berry Waldrop 1794-1854 >>Joseph Ryan Waldrop 1827-1870 >>James Harry Waldrop 190601962 >>Me. >> >>So what he is saying I am only related to Green Berry Waldrop,Benjamin >>Waldrop his papa is not related to me, I am just in his name only line. >>We are only researching our names and not who wer are related to. >> >>So if James Waldrop, Sr. and Ann hadn't married in the 1700s, would I be >>here?? Does it not take one generation to make another. >> >>He said this was taught in the FBI and DNA. >> >>Help me please.....I am not educated in this and he is. >> >>Please tell me he is wrong. >> >>Sandra >>maiden Waldrop >>Georgia >> >> >>==== ARKANSAS Mailing List ==== >>To unsubscribe, send the command "unsubscribe" to >>ARKANSAS-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or >>ARKANSAS-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >> >> >go to: > > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> >> > > > >==== ARKANSAS Mailing List ==== >Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most helpful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > -- :-) acp ******************************************************************** * A. Collene Pearce * acpearce@io.com * www.jump.net/~collene * ********************************************************************